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The GOP was the antivax party before Ron DeSantis, but now he’s turbocharged its resistance

Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis fancies himself a Nuremberg prosecutor.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has apparently decided that riding the antivax wave is his key to the GOP nomination. This wouldn’t have represented a viable strategy if the GOP hadn’t become the antivax party over the last decade or so.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

“Can colleges mandate Ozempic?” Clever or clueless analogy? You be the judge!

Ozempic
I hate the Ozempic jingle almost as much as I hate Dr. Prasad's brain dead analogy. Almost.

Dr. Vinay Prasad compares college booster mandates to mandating Ozempic in obese students. How are these things different from each other? Let me count the ways. How disingenuous is Dr. Prasad? Let me count the ways.

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Antivaccine nonsense Homeopathy Medicine

Dr. Tess Lawrie expands from ivermectin quackery to homeopathy

Homeopathy
Truly, homeopathy is the air guitar of medicine, except that it's usually not even entertaining.

Tess Lawrie has been promoting ivermectin for COVID-19 for two and a half years. Of late, she has become more of a general multipurpose quack, promoting ivermectin to treat cancer. Now she’s promoting homeopathy for COVID and long COVID while a Research Fellow at St. Mary’s University Twickenham. What does this tell us about medicine?

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Alan Lash recycles an old prepandemic antivax trope

Lash vs doctors
It its impressive that Lash resisted going to the old antivax standby of doctors shilling for tobacco companies. That's what makes him a skilled propagandist.

Everything old is new yet again, as Brownstone Institute’s Alan Lash recycles old antivax tropes about doctors supposedly being in the thrall of big pharma and therefore untrustworthy.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Clinical trials Medicine Pseudoscience

Andrew Wakefield 25 years later: Paving the way for FLCCC and COVID quacks

Andrew Wakefield, the measles, and JPANDS
Thanks, Andy, for the measles.

It was 25 years ago last week that Andrew Wakefield launched the modern iteration of the antivaccine movement.In doing so, he laid down a template that antivax quacks today still follow.